From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lrcsun15.epfl.ch (almesber@lrcsun15.epfl.ch [128.178.156.77]) by kvack.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id FAA17525 for ; Thu, 22 Oct 1998 05:54:32 -0400 From: Werner Almesberger Message-Id: <199810220948.LAA06921@lrcsun15.epfl.ch> Subject: Re: MM with fragmented memory Date: Thu, 22 Oct 1998 11:48:26 +0200 (MET DST) In-Reply-To: from "Rik van Riel" at Oct 22, 98 11:25:32 am MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: H.H.vanRiel@phys.uu.nl Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-7110@redhat.com List-ID: Rik van Riel wrote: > linux-kernel replaced by linux-mm, since that is where the > MM folks hang around and linux-kernel is busy enough as it > is... Ah, thanks ! >> - allocations from start_mem and end_mem are each limited to a total of >> 512kB > > Allocations are limited to 128kB already. Are you sure this limit also applies to linear allocations, i.e. my_huge_buffer = start_mem; start_mem += 5*1024*1024; ? - Werner -- _________________________________________________________________________ / Werner Almesberger, DI-ICA,EPFL,CH werner.almesberger@lrc.di.epfl.ch / /_IN_R_131__Tel_+41_21_693_6621__Fax_+41_21_693_6610_____________________/ -- This is a majordomo managed list. To unsubscribe, send a message with the body 'unsubscribe linux-mm me@address' to: majordomo@kvack.org